FIRES DESTROY PATAGONIAN FOREST IN ARGENTINA
02.29.08 - Leído 59 veces. Enviar esta notaFirefighters battled forest fires in Argentina’s Patagonia region on Thursday, but thousand-year-old trees in a national park were not threatened by the flames, a provincial official said
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina; February 29, 2008.- The fire, which government officials blamed on arsonists, started in the Alerces National Park, raising fears about damage to the park’s famous Patagonian cypress trees. The trees can live for 2,000 years or more, making some of them among the oldest living things on Earth.

